Shakespeare is a great writer who wrote one hundred and fifty four sonnets and due to the number and their consistent quality, his particular style became known as "The Shakespearean sonnet form" . Shakespearean sonnet has "fourteen lines, broken down into three quatrains and ending with a rhyming couplet" . Shakespeare mostly wrote his sonnets about love. It was traditional during the Elizabethan age, for gentlemen to write love sonnets about their lover and give it to …
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…thee lovely", "do too". Moss doesn't use such rhymes in his poem. Repetition is very common in Shakespeare's sonnet: more and more (line 2), too and too (lines 4,5), so long and so long (lines 13 and 14), nor and nor (lines 10 and 11), thou and thou (lines 10 and 11), fair and fair (line 7). Moss also uses repetition in his poem: you're and you're (lines 1 and 2), sometimes and sometimes (lines 5 and 6), is and is (lines 5 and 6), you and you (lines 12 and 13).